By CLIFTON ADCOCK The chief must sign the resolution to make it happen. TAHLEQUAH -- The Cherokee Nation Tribal Council has passed a resolution to establish three new medical clinics and a dental clinic in northeastern Oklahoma.

By CLIFTON ADCOCK The Cherokee Nation Tribal Council voted Thursday evening to ratify an agreement with Indian Health Services to assume control of the W.W. Hastings Indian Hospital in Tahlequah.

By Keith Purtell, Muskogee Phoenix, Okla. Aug. 2--TAHLEQUAH--Applications are now being accepted for a program designed to keep people in their communities rather than nursing facilities.

By Clifton Adcock, Tulsa World, Okla. Jul. 29--TAHLEQUAH --The 45 acres of weeds, rocks, tangled brush and post oaks adjacent to the W.W. Hastings Indian Hospital soon might be home to a beacon in Indian health care.

By CLIFTON ADCOCK; OMER GILLHAM Only one area violator is found. Creek Nation stores, however, use low-tax stamps.